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"The Roma Community of Rome: Heirs to the Legacy of the Ghetto System" in the Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning, Pakistan

A medium-length piece on the Roma of Rome, authored by Minerva Partner Jon Calame, appeared in the Winter 2010 volume of  the Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning, published by the NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Pakistan.  This volume focused on housing.  The Acrobat version can be downloaded here.

"The Pillory: Minority Containment in the Urban Domain" in Politique étrangère: vol. 75, n° 4 (Winter 2010)

This piece by Jon Calame looks at ethnic ghettos in a broad contexts for the latest issue of France's foreign affairs journal which looks at walls and segregation through a policy lens.  The English version of the piece can be read here, and the French version here.

Roma of Rome, in Design Observer's Places journal

"In Italy today, politicians have become the lead architects of a low-cost human-warehousing system designed to contain the minority Roma, or Gypsy, community," writes historic preservationist Jon Calame. Here we present a report, with a detailed slideshow, in which Calame tracks a network of marginalized housing camps  — what he calls the latest chapter in a long, dark history of state-sponsored ghettos.

Read article and view slideshow here.

 

 

 

 

Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia

Minerva Partner Jon Calame is co-author of Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia, a book in the "Cities of the 21st Century" series from the University of Pennsylvania Press published in March 2009.

This book identifies patterns of urban partition and draws on extensive on-site interviews with urban design professionals to assess the effectiveness of their response. Ethnic partition is critiqued as a weak strategy in the face of conflict, unrest, and institutional discrimination.  New photos and maps never previously published are included.  Brief description and table of contents here.  For more information or advance copies of the book for review, please contact Jon Calame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cover image showing Beirut c. 1983, when the Damascus Road was the partitioning "Green Line."

Order a copy through Amazon here, or through the UPenn Press website here (to receive the publisher's 20% discount, please enter "9i7" in the discount code field).

Is Preservation Missing the Point?

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partners Kirstin Sechler and Jon Calame from Future Anterior (v. 1, n. 1 Spring 2004) here.

Divided Cities and Ethnic Conflict in the Urban Domain

Please find a conference paper by Minerva Partner Jon Calame presented October 4 2005 and published in ICCROM's Forum (Spring 2007) here.

Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Mostar

Please find a essay co-authored by Mineva Partner Jon Calame and Dr. Amir Pasic regarding the impacts of foreign investment in Mostar's revitalization from the working paper series of the Conflict in Cities and the Contested State program run out of Belfast, here.

Calame interview re: Nicosia Master Plan collaboration

Please find an interview by Nicos Trimikliniotis with Minerva partner Jon Calame regarding the accomplishments of the Nicosia Master Plan team from Cypriot daily newspaper Politis (May 2007) here. In Greek.

How Architectural Conservation Can Serve Social Development

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partners Jon Calame and Kirstin Sechler for Monday Developments, the newsletter of Interaction (August 2003) here.

The Divided City as Broken Artifact

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partner Jon Calame and architect Esther Charlesworth for Mediterraneum's special issue on the protection of cultural and environmental patrimony in the context of crisis (November 2003) here.